When the New Basic Reader Series was published in 1935, Dick and Jane continued their adventures in primers titled “We Come and Go,” “We Look and See,” “We Work and Play,” and “Fun With Dick and Jane.”Īs conceived by Sharp and Gray, the new program used a controlled vocabulary where students learned a new word by looking at the word and saying it repeatedly, not by sounding it out phonetically. The new reading program mimicked the way children actually talked, by repeating words and simple sentences.ĭick, Jane, and the rest of their family first appeared in the 1930 edition of the Elson-Gray Basic Reader series, written by the University of Chicago’s Professor of Education, William S. She choose the names Dick and Jane because they were common names that had only four letters.
In 1927, Zerna Sharp, a former first grade teacher and elementary principal, was working as a reading consultant for textbook publisher Scott, Foresman and Company when she developed the characters for a new reading program. Generations of American schoolchildren learned to read by following the daily adventures of siblings Dick, Jane, baby sister Sally, their dog Spot, kitten Puff, and a teddy bear named Tim.
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